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After reading two of the "one star" reviews, I can't help wondering if there's an Evil Twin of "The 11th Hour" out there making the rounds. Otherwise, those two reviews make no sense. Neither of them even comes close to expressing the essence of what I saw on the dvd I watched. It's true that the film makes greater use of interviews than visuals - and that would be a defect if there were not already an abundance of images in the public domain showing melting glaciers, rising sea levels, deforestation and extreme weather. It would also have been a defect if the people being interviewed had been incoherent or overly academic in their delivery - but they weren't. Each one offered ideas and studied opinions on various aspects of the problems facing us from the perspective of their particular field. The film is far more about offering solutions than simply re-stating the enormous problems facing us. The one thing, more than anything else, I got out of this film - the one thing I hadn't really gotten from any other source - is that we already have the technology we need to begin moving away from fossil fuels. That technology is not still in the development stage; nor is it 20 or 30 years away - it's already here, and ready to be adapted to the scale needed to make it a practical reality. What's missing is the political will to make the shift from fossil fuels to cleaner energy sources. And that's basically what the film was about: identifying the thing that's keeping humanity tied to the fossil fuel treadmill that's slowing making the planet uninhabitable for humans and most other species currently alive. It's not rocket science; it's the two ancient bugaboos of political science: "creature of habit" and "status quo." We don't want to be bothered just yet. There was a quote in the film attributed to Winston Churchill which just about says it all: "The Americans always do the right thing - after they've tried everything else first." We may not have time this time to try everything else first.
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First of all, I do believe environmental protection is extremely -- even critically -- important. With that, I had great expectations upon buying this DVD. I was expecting something on the magnitude of Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" or National Geographic's "Six degrees Could Change The World". Instead I get crap. This DVD, in the total scheme of things, is worthless junk and those who made it should be ashamed of themselves.
In a nutshell, it is just a series of one-after-the-other collection of quotes, comments and one-liners -- more often than not semi-coherent, minimally relevant, disjointed and illogically framed -- by a series of non-descript individuals some of which were apparently dredged out of oblivion just to serve as filler in this poor excuse for serious discussion of mankind's most pressing concern.
To make matters worse, after struggling to find rhyme & reason out of most of the 94 minutes of the main feature, I at least hoped for something of substance in the Featurette Gallery which turned out to be even worse than crap. The Featurette Gallery, with subtitles such as "Solutions We Have Right Now" and "Nature's Operating Instructions & Solutions" proved to be nothing more than half-baked, psycho-babble, bullfeces drivel often totally unrelated, totally irrelevant and useless for anything other than to kill time and fill space to justify the $4.99 they rob you for when you buy the DVD.
You'll learn more about sustainable development taking the $4.99 and buying old Tom & Jerry cartoons.
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We enjoyed the film as a whole. The photography and message were clear and important. I hope more people see it and discuss it like we did.
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When I saw Inconvenient Truth, I felt I asked "where's the film?" It was a speech somebody famous was giving, but ultimately just a speech. 11th Hour is a FILM, which is what a documentary should be. Another great example of how powerful film can present facts is Blue Gold World Water Wars, which I also review and which has been called by press 'The Inconvenient Truth about water'. 11th Hour should be watched by all and I hope it gets the attention it deserves in a post-Inconvenient Truth world.
Rating:  -
I thought I knew all there was to know about global warming and the environmental crisis, but this movie gave me a new perspective on the subject. It was quite inspiring. I just graduated undergrad with a BFA in Visual Arts and planning on going to grad school for architecture. Also, as I've grown up in Buras, LA at the mouth of the Mississippi River, I feel like I can make a difference for my community. But you don't need to have an architecture degree to make a change for the better, all you need to do is make the conscious decision that you will make more environmentally friendly choices. The statistics are quite interesting as well. One part mentioned how much it would cost to create a machine that'll do what nature already does for us for free (turning carbon dioxide into oxygen, etc.) And they also make it clear that we don't have to drop all our technology and become hunter gatherers wearing animal skins and holding spears again. We just have to redesign our technology to be more environmentally friendly. We have the minds and resources to do so, too. Watch this movie, it's only $5 and even comes in an environmentally friendly paper cover.
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